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Belk Library and Nerd Network are hosting a Humans vs Zombies gaming event. Students, faculty, and staff are welcome to play! There will be food available at the beginning of the event. We suggest that you bring your own Nerf gun. The first 45 participants without a Nerf gun will be loaned either a six dart or a three dart Nerf blaster.

Humans vs Zombies is a game of tag. Most of the players begin as humans with the objective to evade the growing number of zombies and be the last human "alive."

Players wanting to do zombie makeup can arrive at 9:00 pm to be zombiefied!

Game Rules

The game will be played on all of the levels of the library.

Students without Nerf guns volunteer to start the game as zombies.

Zombies two hand tag a human to infect them.

After being tagged, humans hold up one arm to identify himself or herself as a new zombie. New zombies drop off their Nerf guns to designated areas and then play as a zombie.

All participants should have one foot on the ground at all times.

One foam dart to the torso or two to the extremities stops a zombie.

Zombies aren't out of the game when hit with a foam dart, but must “respawn” by going to the designated zones for a five minute time out.

The game continues until there is only one human (or close to one human) remaining.

Nerf Gun modifications are allowed, but due to safety reasons, no guns can be in neutral colors (grey, black, green, camo, etc.)

October is North Carolina Archives Month. This year’s theme is “North Carolina at Play: Health and Leisure in Our State.” In honor of this, we are highlighting our Camp Catawba Collection in an exhibit located in the Cratis Williams Reading Room on the fourth floor of the library.

Located near Blowing Rock North Carolina, Camp Catawba was an overnight summer camp for boys aged 6 to 12. It operated from 1944-1970 under the direction of Jewish-German poet and educator Vera Lachmann.

Camp Facilities included twenty acres and three buildings. Art, music, and drama were emphasized. Lachmann taught Greek myths and directed theatrical productions. Her partner, Tui St. George Tucker, provided musical instruction. Campers participated in an array of outdoor activities including horseback riding, swimming, and hiking.

This exhibit focuses on the camp’s boys at play. It includes images of camp life and a map developed as part of a game. View the rest of the collection as well as our many other collections in the Dougherty Reading Room.

More information about Archives Month is available from the Society of North Carolina Archivists' website.

Works by Automotive Artist Carlo Demand on Display in the LibraryArt from the Mark & Barbara Moskowitz Collection is currently on display in the fourth floor atrium of Belk Library as well as several locations in the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts. German-born artist Carlo Demand is known for his depictions of race cars, airplanes, trucks, and other automotive vehicles. Much of his work was done in charcoal or gouache. He published several books of his work and also did commercial art and illustrations for books, magazines, and newspapers. He was a founding member of the Automobile Fine Arts Society. Demand died in 2000. Exhibit closes December 5, 2014.

An Evening with Norman Jordan
Come have your mind blown. Evening will begin with a short biographical film entitled, "Life as a poet in Cleveland, Ohio in 1972." Mr. Jordan will read his work as well as speak on Affrilachia, Affrilachian poetry, & West Virginia. See the flier here.

Sponsored by: Appalachian State University's Center for Appalachian Studies, College of Arts and Sciences

Co sponsored by: Department of Cultural, Gender, and Global Studies Department of English Richard T. Barker Friends of the University Libraries Center for Multicultural Student Development Department of Sociology

Launch party for Sharyn McCrumb’s Christmas novella on Oct. 6 at Belk Library and Information Commons

Area residents and fans of Sharyn McCrumb are invited to a book launch for her Christmas novella “Nora Bonesteel’s Christmas Past” Oct. 6 at Appalachian State University. The event will feature readings and stories by the author and Charlotte Ross, the inspiration for the main character of Nora Bonestell. Book signing and reception immediately following.

Ross, known as the “Legend Lady,” has collected or composed more than 3,400 tales of legends and laughter from Appalachia. She has performed at the Philadelphia Folk Festival, Corn Island Storytelling Festival, Great Smoky Mountain National Park, Blue Ridge Parkway, North Carolina Storytelling Festival, The Great Aunt Stella Center, Ulster Folk and Transport Museum in Ireland, and for the Smithsonian Institution Folklife Programs. She also has been a featured storyteller on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered.”

McCrumb’s first-ever holiday novella brings back her most popular characters, Nora Bonesteel and Spencer Arrowood, in a heartwarming story of a ghost of Christmas past and a felon of Christmas present. The book finds Nora happy to see some life brought back to the old Honeycutt mansion, even if it is by “summer people.” But when her new neighbors decide to stay through Christmas, they find more than old memories in the walls.

The New York Times Book Review wrote, “Ms. McCrumb writes with quiet fire and maybe a little mountain magic....She plucks the mysteries from people’s lives and works these dark narrative threads into Appalachian legends older than the hills. Like every true storyteller, she has the Sight.”

Complete the online reservation request form. If the date/time is available, and public performance rights are required, your reservation will flagged as 'TENTATIVE.'

If the film screening does not meet the Classroom Screenings/Face-to-Face Teaching then a letter of permission for public performance or a Public Performance License must be provided before your reservation can be confirmed. This proof must be provided at least 48 hours (and during Monday through Friday 8:00 am-5:00 pm) prior to the event or your reservation will be cancelled.

This award promotes students' active engagement in the processes of library research and encourages them to synthesize library research skills with the reading, writing and critical thinking skills developed in their first year at Appalachian.

Award:

First Prize: $300 gift certificate to the bookstore

Second Prize: $200 gift certificate to the bookstore

In addition to the monetary award:

The winning student will allow a copy of his or her paper to be given to the University Archives.

The winning paper will be posted on the Belk Library & Information Commons Library website as well as the Composition and Rhetoric website.

Eligible students in the Fall 2014 and Spring 2015 courses of:

UCO 1200: First Year Seminar (including honors sections)

English 1000 (including honors sections)

Applications Students wishing to enter a research paper for consideration should click on this application form.

Artemis Literary Sources brings together Gale's premier literary databases in a new digital environment that allows researchers, faculty and students to search across these resources to discover and analyze content in entirely new ways. Artemis Literary Sources include the following databases:

Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online

Literature Criticism Online

Literature Resource Center

Something About the Author Online

Artemis Primary Sources unifies extensive digital archives and enables researchers to make never-before-possible research connections. The Artemis Primary Sources program combined major archives of eighteenth and nineteenth century monographs, manuscripts, newspapers, maps, and early photographs. Artemis Primary Sources include the following collections:

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